Sunday Worship – June 25, 2021
“The primary effect of Sunday worship is insertion into community. At least in my socio-economic class, persons are increasingly alone, eating at the microwave, commuting by oneself, watching one’s favorite programs alone on one of the household TVs. I hear that bowling as a hobby continues strong, but that membership in bowling clubs is down. […]
In Us All – June 24, 2021
“The One-in-Three might signify something like this: The One is about transcendence, about being beyond the universe, the mystery that precedes the big bang and that remains after my death. I am, alas, thank goodness, not god/goddess; the ultimate reality is other than me, prior to me, and I must be in relation to it. […]
Both-And – June 23, 2021
“I am upheld by the realization that religion is a communal vision. I am not, my prairie mother’s notions notwithstanding, alone with my Bible facing a cyclone. The community was and is both male and female. My teachers were women and men, the authors I read women and men, the saints before me were both […]
A Communal Worldview – June 22, 2021
“The delight in hearing one’s own voice is lethal to religion. Religion used to be, and still is for some, a communal worldview about ultimate reality, with the resultant communal rituals and ethics. In most earlier societies, all the people who lived in the same locale endured the same natural disasters, survived the same plagues. […]
